LobsterSan
MOT: kuboTEN
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Well, one detractor of living in an Asian country is that the roaches here are not only rampant, but HUGE. I had heard early reports from my roommate that Percy (the name of our new visitor) was roughly the size of a cat. I thought this was an exaggeration. However, this morning, as I stepped into the bathroom to brush my teeth, I found Percy messing about near our toothbrushes. And indeed, Percy was quite large. I have seen larger, but only in a controlled lab environment, and only alive for the time that it took to asphixiate and dissect them. I gave a gutteral yelp and stepped away from Percy, thoroughly revolted and shivering with the heebie-jeebies. And I hadn't the strength to smash Percy with [nearby object], for I feared the splatter of guts would make me lose whatever I had in my stomach.
This is the first report of cockroaches in our relatively new, relatively highly elevated apartment, as previous ESL instructors have stayed in our apartment for years and never experienced a roach. I guess it's a testament to the amount of filth that three twentysomething-year-old boys can build up in just a short amount of time.
So now my question to you all of you is...
How do I get rid of these suckers? And how do I keep them from crawling on me at night? I'm planning on picking up some roach traps... you think I should get the kind that poisons the colony or the instant kill variety?
This is the first report of cockroaches in our relatively new, relatively highly elevated apartment, as previous ESL instructors have stayed in our apartment for years and never experienced a roach. I guess it's a testament to the amount of filth that three twentysomething-year-old boys can build up in just a short amount of time.
So now my question to you all of you is...
How do I get rid of these suckers? And how do I keep them from crawling on me at night? I'm planning on picking up some roach traps... you think I should get the kind that poisons the colony or the instant kill variety?